... and Sacrifice. By Dennis Tedlock. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 361 pp., introduc- tion, maps, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography. $35.00 cloth.) Byron Ellsworth Hamann, University of Chicago The Rabinal Achi (Man of Rabinal) is a Maya play dramatizing the capture...

...Daniel Morley Johnson Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas. By Gananath Obeyesekere. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xx + 320 pp., preface, maps, illustrations, index. $21.95 paper, $55.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2006...

...Sarahh Scher Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Unification . By Besom Thomas . ( Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press , 2013 . xvii + 309 pp., acknowledgments, prologue, introduction, epilogue, appendixes, notes, glossary, references, index...

... of 281 both dilemmas squarely into focus and shows that no one—from Conser- vative elites to Sandinista cadre, from solidary analysts to the community members themselves—has escaped their effects. Small Sacrifices: Religious...

...Seth Mallios Historical narratives describing the demise of a sixteenth-century Jesuit mission on the Chesapeake grew from direct accounts of indigenous murder to elaborate constructions of the missionaries' divine sacrifice. A seriation of details from the seven contemporary Jesuit sources...

...David Tavárez Context This article presents a translation and analysis of the only extant formal confession of human sacrifice written in an Indigenous language in the colonial Americas. An analysis of this document, written in Northern Zapotec by the town officials of Yalalag in 1704, provides...

... they eventually were resurrected. The Coatlicue statue may represent this resurrected creatrix, whose sacrifice gave us light and warmth, in the form of her personified skirt. Copyright 2008 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2008 Aguilera, Carmen 1985 Flora y fauna mexicana: Mitología y...

... Sacrifice in the South Seas [Berkeley, CA, 2005]). By using food to ground the face-to-face encounters between native and newcomer and by placing indigenous understandings of encounter at the center of the story, this article seeks to describe some of the specific mechanisms, material and rhetorical...

.... 2 James Diego Vigil, Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California (Austin, TX, 1988). DOI 10.1215/00141801-2681921 Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Uni- fication. By Thomas Besom. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2013. xvii...

...Helaine Silverman American Society for Ethnohistory 2003 Cook, Anita G. 2001 Huari D-Shaped Structures,Sacrificial Offerings, and Divine Rulership. In Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru . Elizabeth P. Benson and Anita G. Cook, eds. Pp. 137 -63. Austin: University of Texas Press...

... examples of vows in traditional cultures, a form of sacrifice to the gods? The answer is provided by Nahuatl sources themselves. In the same passage contained in the Florentine Codex, Sahagún lists the eating of earth as one of the acts accompanying prayer (tlatlatlauhtiliztli) to the god...

... . Barrera Vásquez Alberto Rendón Silvia 1992 El Libro de los Libros del Chilam Balam . Mexico City : Fondo de la Cultura Económica . Boone Elizabeth H. , ed. 1984 Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica . Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks . Breglia Lisa C. 2006 Monumental...

...- pansion, which was accompanied by large-scale ritual sacrifice of captured people; and Nazi Germany, which disrupted Wolf’s own central European childhood. In each chapter Wolf examines the role of ideology in consoli- dating power and in defining characteristic (and historically controversial) cultural...

... a dramatization of cer- emonial rites, culminating in an arrow sacrifice and decapitation (van Akkeren 1999). The main characters are masked, also a surviving pre- Columbian tradition, and they don elaborate garb typical of the Rab’inal area. The text of the drama itself, written in K’iche’ Maya and dating...

... battles, coronations, and other imperial events. But why did these events unfold as they did? Discussions of the economy and society are largely absent, leading some of her claims to seem naive and credulous. Are we really supposed to believe that Tlacaelel’s fanatical devotion to human sacrifice...

... European renditions of Aztec sacrifice, as explored by Cecilia Klein, were based more on European representations of sacrifice than Mexican ones. For Leonardo López Luján, the development of archaeology and an interest in antiquities among viceregal creoles in New Spain owed much to the archaeology...

... two contrastive kinds of ritual around sacrifice. In the southeast political authority was tied closely to the sombily (the right enjoyed by rulers or nobles to slaughter cattle by cutting their throats). The importance...

... anthropological and archaeological terms, such as ceram- ics, are defined and discussed in terms of their specific relevance to Meso- american cultures. Similarly, topics such as astronomy, caves, jade, salt, and sacrifice, to name...